Do you love scary movies but have strict, honor-code abiding roommates? Here is a list of horror films that are not rated-R.  Now McKenzie does not have to snoop over your shoulder and scold you! Stupid McKenzie and her Disney movies. Now here is some real culture! 

1. 1. 50 First Dates. Terrifying. This is about a woman whose short-term memory is no longer converted to long-term memory, causing her to live the same day over and over again. Adam Sandler lusts over her and gets her pregnant. The ending scene is of her waking up on a boat in the middle of the sea with a child and her husband. Understandably, she cries. And she does this every day! To be honest, after watching this movie, I was left to wonder if I am living the same day over and over without realizing it. If I am, I’m just glad I’m not waking up into a different life all the time.
   2. The Little Mermaid. Dumb butt protagonist makes a deal with the devil over some lust, disobeying her dad. Freaking loses her voice, people turn into seaweed. There is a murderous chef that goes after the protagonist’s lobster friend. Gives me the heebie-jeebies.
   3. James and the Giant Peach. ‘Nuff said–I hate it because it brings back my nightmares. Okay, I’ll say some more. A bull appears out of the sky and eats some kid’s parents. He is stuck living with his hateful aunties, and sets a spider free instead of killing it.  He gets some magic beans (I think), and his aunts throw it out of his hand. (Am I mixing this up with Jack and the Beanstalk?) The peach grows super big, and James eats his way into it.  He turns into a freaky puppet and meets some giant bugs, including the spider he set free. He makes friends with the bugs. They fly in the peach to the Empire State Building, the “tallest building in the world.” All while the EXACT SAME giant flying sky bull is chasing them. You know who else is chasing them? James’s aunties. They drive THROUGH THE OCEAN all the way from ENGLAND. I think James turns back into a real boy, and New York eats his automobile. He ends up living in the pit of the peach, so at least there’s sort of a happy ending.  Super scary, so I would highly recommend.
   4. Field of Dreams. Some guy is about to lose his farm. One night, as he is walking outside, a baseball player walks out of the cornfield.  He proceeds to play catch with the farm guy. More and more baseball players come out of the corn. THEY ARE GHOSTS. They keep telling the poor guy to “build the diamond” or something. Very cryptic. Why, why, why did there have to be ghosts?? AND THEY DISAPPEAR BACK INTO THE CORN. He builds a diamond and spends each night watching the ghosts play baseball. After a few days or so, the farm guy tells his family that they will not sell the farm. Thinking he’s too sentimental, they join him outside one night and also see the corn ghosts. Scared of the financial strain, they talk to the ghosts about the situation. One of the ghosts says, “People will come.” Gosh, that is terrifying. Ghosts appear out of a corn field, ask for a baseball diamond, invite their buddies, and say that people will come. Sounds like the beginning of a cult to me. The movie ends with people driving up to the farm property to watch the ghosts play baseball. I think there is other stuff that happens in the movie, but I may have intentionally forgotten it because it is so scary. I think an old guy dies or something.
   5. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown. There is impending doom of a locally contained mass extinction. Vultures follow the animals around, and giant sea serpents eat a character who had a cameo earlier in the film. This movie is full of not only suspense, but also major time-consuming and dangerous distractions as the main characters find their way to the boat, including geysers, crumbling cliffs, drowning, and mini sloths attempting to throw a main character into a volcano. When the protagonists finally get to the boat, it is not that big and not that full, so it is obvious not all the animals made it. In fact, none of the mini-sloths made it. What caused their demise? Was it the volcano, or was it simply a lack of knowledge of the current events?
   6. Similarly, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 has a lot of running and suspense, only this time they are also hiding from murderous people.     
   7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Mean Girls. Both involve bullies, but the whole time, the true bully was the protagonist. It is so terrifying to see the main character become the thing they sought to destroy.
   8. Wizard of Oz. Crazy neighbor threatens to kill the protagonist’s dog, so the protagonist (named Dorothy) runs away. When she comes back home, THERE IS A TORNADO, and she cannot find her family! She hits her head, and the tornado PICKS UP HER HOUSE. When she lands, she finds out she killed a witch, which is great, I guess, but then the dead witch’s sister appears and wants the dead witch’s shoes.  They get stuck on Dorothy’s feet, so she is stuck in a weird place called Oz with a witch on her case and no way back home. This terrifying witch tries to kill Dorothy many times, but she gets some friends who help her. When she finally finds someone who can help her, he’s like, “Nope, you’ve got to go kill this witch.” So Dorothy goes to the witch’s house and almost dies. AGAIN. The witch ends up melting when splashed with water, which is terrifying. When Dorothy comes back to the guy, he says he got stuck in the land of Oz, too, and that he will give her a ride home. He ends up ditching her, so Dorothy is stuck in Oz forever.
   9. Home Alone. Being alone at home is scary enough, but Kevin (not the BYU president) has to defend himself from burglars.